- 1. Bon-Ami the Oil Burning Beast (score: 1)
- Author: Eric <eric@erickson.on.net>
- Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 16:01:42 +0000
- While tracking down some answers for my James-Bond-like smokescreen that is now emitting from my poor little overdriven/overfixed yellow beasty, I hunted through the list archives (marvellous past-ti
- /html/mgs/1999-02/msg00973.html (8,050 bytes)
- 2. Re: Bon-Ami the Oil Burning Beast (score: 1)
- Author: Eric <eric@erickson.on.net>
- Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:03:08 +0000
- <snip> Oooops, just in case anyone gets the wrong idea... nope, I am not planning this as a course of action to fix my car's smoking habit!! :-) Eric '68MGB MkII
- /html/mgs/1999-02/msg00977.html (7,192 bytes)
- 3. Re: Bon-Ami the Oil Burning Beast (score: 1)
- Author: BobMGT@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 11:45:54 EST
- I put a new vented oil filler cap on my B and my oil consumption dropped dramatically. (It's a '71 that's been modified to require a vented cap.) I think there's really something to this crankcase ve
- /html/mgs/1999-02/msg00988.html (7,757 bytes)
- 4. Re: Bon-Ami the Oil Burning Beast (score: 1)
- Author: Susan and John Roper <vscjohn@huntnet.net>
- Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 11:19:07 -0600
- Why not throw a handful of sand in the crankcase as well. We use air cleaners to avoik airborn grit, so now we should add itto the engines diet? A very questionable fix for rings that did not seat. J
- /html/mgs/1999-02/msg00990.html (8,505 bytes)
- 5. Re: Bon-Ami the Oil Burning Beast (score: 1)
- Author: Carl Elliott <grunt2@adelphia.net>
- Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 12:51:22 -0500
- This was an actual fix, Used some years ago, Guys at work bring it up from time to time, Carl E.
- /html/mgs/1999-02/msg00992.html (8,821 bytes)
- 6. Re: Bon-Ami the Oil Burning Beast (score: 1)
- Author: H4aardvrk@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 17:11:41 EST
- << V8 burned oil,as much as a qt every 200 miles!The fix the company told listers, I am in complete agreement with anyone out there who has suggested using BonAmi for washing the toilet bowl as oppos
- /html/mgs/1999-02/msg01002.html (8,012 bytes)
- 7. Re: Bon-Ami the Oil Burning Beast (score: 1)
- Author: Carl Elliott <grunt2@adelphia.net>
- Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:25:30 -0500
- This was done on new cars to seat the Rings. Bon ami is a very mild abrasive. was done in the early 60 or late 50s to my knowledge. After it was used the cyls were flushed as was the engine. This was
- /html/mgs/1999-02/msg01007.html (8,551 bytes)
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